The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

Virginia Woolf

You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.

Billy Burke

It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.

Christina Aguilera

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

Stephen Covey

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

John Templeton

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Benjamin Franklin

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Madeleine Albright

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Christopher Morley

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

Trust your ability!

Itzhak Perlman

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

John Lennon